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ANDEEw CAMPBELL, OFBROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AS IGNOE, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE HAT MACHINE COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

HAT-SWEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,578, dated June 28, 1887.

Application filed Oetobcr 12, 1856.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, AN REW CAMPBELL, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in HatSweats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hat-sweat or sweatband provided with a binding of some imper- IO vious and non-absorbent material; and my object is to produce a Sweat with a light, flexible, elastic binding that will resist moisture and the corroding efl'ects of perspiration. Heretofore, in some instances, such sweats have i 5 been provided with metallic bindings, and in others they have been corded and overstitched. Metal is apt to oxidize, and is, besides, rather, stiff and heavy.

My invention consists of an improved hatsweat, comprising a broad flexible band of leather'or like material, aseeuring-strip at the back of said band, and a bead-like binding, of celluloid or other similar compound containing pyroxyline, clasping said band and attach- 2 5 ing-strip. The attaching-strip may be integral with the band, or not, as preferred.

It also consists in providing the edges of the celluloid binding-strip with serrations or scallops, so that it will the better clasp and hold the band and strip.

In carrying out my invention, I take a thin and narrow strip of celluloid, preferably black or ebony celluloid, as long as the sweatband, and place it on the sweat-band along the edge to be bound. The strip of celluloid is now, while in this position, passed through a metal binder or hemmer, together with the leather sweat, the metal binder being warmed or heated during the process in order to render 0 the celluloid strip limber and pliable, it being horny and elastic at normal temperatures. After the strip of celluloid is thus applied as a binding, and after it has become cool and stiff, or normal, it is polished in the usual way employed with celluloid, and will then present the appearance of an ebony bead on the edge of the sweat-band.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 shows a piece of a Serial No. 216,017. (No model.)

sweat-band for a hat constructed according to my invention. Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the bound edge of the sweat-band on a large scale. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the imp rovcd sweat-band secured in thehat. Fig.

3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, illustrating the mode of attaching the band to the hat. Fig. 4 shows a piece of the strip of celluloid or other like material which is destined to form the binding. Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating the forms the binding-strip takes, in succession, as it passes through the binder or attaching-instrument. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing a binder in the act of applying the hind ing-strip to the sweat-band.

a represents the sweat band, usually of 6 leather, and b the strip of leather or other flexible fabric laid along the edge of the band that is to be bound.

- 0 represents the binding-strip of thin celluloid after it has been applied.

In Figs. 2 and 3, 00 represents .the body of a hat, and y the brim of the same.

In attaching the sweat-band, it is applied to the hat in the position seen in Fig. 2, the

leather a turned back or out, as seen in Fig. 3, V

and the strip 12 secured to the hat by stitches or other fastenings, d. I prefer to use asepa rate strip b for an attachingstrip but the edge of the band a might be folded over to form an attaching-strip, and the use of a separate at taching-strip be avoided. The binding-strip c, which before it is applied is merely a flat strip of celluloid or other pyroxyline compound, is represented in Fig. 4, wherein it is shown with slightly scalloped edges, the long scallop's c 0' being arranged by design out of register or coincidence on its opposite edges. Any toothing or slight roughening of the edges will serve; or these scallops may be entirely omitted.

In Fig. 5 the sectional views 1 2 3 4 show the successive forms the binding-strip 0 takes in passing through the binder.

Fig. 6 illustrates the form of the binder e, which may be employed. Similar binders have been used before, and I make no claim to this instrument. Any instrument or machine that will effect the purpose may be used. It is onlyv necessary that the edges of the strip 0 shall be so turned in and embedded in the material of the sweat-baud that the strip shall have a firm hold, as seen in Fig, 1. lhe heating or warming of the hemmer or binder 0 need only be suflicient to impart the proper degree of pliability to the strip 0, the edges of which will be pressed into the softer material of the sweatband, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. After the celluloid has resumed its normal stiffness, it will be found that it will retain its hold and place on the leather band very tenacious] y.

My improved binding-strip imparts an elegant appearance to the sweat, and is especially well adapted to the best class of silk hats.

I am aware that it has been proposed to makeasweat-band of elastic wood, to bcsprung into place in the hat so as to be held without stitching, and that this wooden band has been faced with a thin veneer of celluloid. This I do notclaim. Mysweat is of leather with only a narrow edgebiudingof celluloid in the form of a bead.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a sweat-band for a hat, comprising a broad flexible band, a, of leather or'like material, a securing-strip at the back of said band a, and a bead-like binding, 0, of celluloid or other similar compound containing pyroxyline, clasping said band and attaching-strip, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a sweat-band for a hat, comprising a broad leather band, a, a strip, I), placed face to face with band a, and a bead-like binding, a, made from a strip of celluloid with scalloped or ser rated edges, and clasping or embracing the edges ofband a and strip 1), substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing wit nesscs.

ANDRE W CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, J. D. CAPL'INHER. 

